Solar winds penetrate Martian atmosphere, MAVEN finds – atmospheric loss mechanism unfolds
Only weeks after it became operational around Mars' orbit, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has uncovered a new process ...
Only weeks after it became operational around Mars' orbit, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has uncovered a new process ...
It's like Christmas before Christmas - the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has started sending back images it took of the red planet, ...
New evidence beamed back by the Curiosity rover and analyzed by NASA JPL scientists suggests that the Gale Crater on Mars had ...
A NASA probe has taken a picture of a surprising pie-like geological feature on Mars. Scientists are not yet sure ...
In all likelihood, we won't be seeing a manned mission for Mars before 2030, but until this happens forefront research ...
Intricate polygons on Mars could be a clear indication of a wet past for the Red Planet. Most crater floor ...
We were telling you a while ago how India launched a probe towards Mars, and how it was successful in ...
We were telling you yesterday about India's Mangalyaan shuttle, which was set to enter Martian orbit. Here's the update: everything went fine, Mangalyaan ...
India's Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM, for short, is gearing up to enter Mars' orbit this Wednesday, after the dormant ...
NASA astronauts will once again travel from the Earth to the International Space Station - under groundbreaking contracts announced today. ...
A brilliant technology reaching its limits Carrying heavier spacecraft to Mars and then safely landing it at supersonic speeds in ...
Mark Lemmon is an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University and a camera operator for numerous Mars missions, ...
The European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) attached to the Columbus module of the International Space Station during orbital flight. Image ...
Topographical map of a Martian region showing impact craters. Photo: Antoine Lucas/NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona The Red Planet is dear to many ...
Curiosity rover captures a strange flare on the Martian surface. PHOTO JPL The photo right above was captured by the ...
Artist impression of planetary impact that led to the formation of the moon. photo: NASA A new massive computer model ...
A huge megaflood may have carved the U-shaped canyons we can now see in Idaho some 46,000 years ago. The ...
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary ...
Geologists have now found the most compelling evidence of granites on Mars - something which prompts more complex theories about ...
(c) Mars Orbiter Mission India is a sort of economic paradox. Its general population is among the poorest in the ...
Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars, and in the solar system for ...
More and more discoveries seem to hint at a watery past for Mars. Now, NASA research shows that hunks of ...
Typically on Earth, days usually have a temperature maximum somewhere after lunch, and a minimum during the night. But for ...
Buried deep at some 2.4 kilometers beneath the surface, in the vicinity of an underground mine near Ontario, Canada, scientists have stumbled ...
A concept image of a spacecraft powered by a fusion-driven rocket. In this image, the crew would be in the ...
Billions of years ago, Mars had a much richer atmosphere than it has today, which is rather an understatement considering ...
The Curiosity rover is in a bit of trouble and is currently facing it's longest period of inactivity since its ...
I just finished watching NASA's latest and definitely most important Curiosity briefing to date. There the Curiosity team announced findings ...
Our understanding and appreciation of Mars has greatly shifted in the past decade alone. If previously scientists used to thought ...
Millionaire Dennis Tito, 72, is widely known as the first private citizen to fly into space in 2001. But being ...
Recently, Curiosity rover made its most complex maneuver since it landed on Mars after it drilled a promising rock, offering ...
Ridges of Martian impact craters could be fossils of cracks in the Martian surface, formed by minerals deposited by flowing ...
(c) Image by ESA/DLR/FU Berlin Using combined imagery delivered by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) and recent color channel data, the ...
The ultimate goal of all current Mars missions and observations is that of finding evidence of life or, on the ...
There seems to be consisting evidence supplied both by past and recent rover missions - like the ever sturdy Opportunity, the ...
A real life Peter-Weyland, SpaceX founder and self-made billionaire, Elon Musk, has stirred up controversy with his space exploration claims ...
A study conducted by researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science concluded that both Earth and Mars got their water ...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used a mechanism on its robotic arm to dig up five scoopfuls of material from a ...
Felix Baumgartner, the supersonic man who jumped from about 40.000 meters above ground is definitely a man up for new ...
Curiosity recently stumbled upon a piece of plastic on the ground, something which researchers really weren't expecting. Don't start thinking ...
It's dinner time, and you know what there's on the menu? Rocks! Martian rocks, to be more precise. After what ...
The search for extraterrestrial life has always been a fascinating thought, one that has entertained the human mind for generations, ...
Although Curiosity landed recently on Mars, the rover is already proving its usefulness, beaming back all sort of interesting information; ...
A massive whirling dust storm on the surface of Mars, as seen captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The extreme ...
An artist impression of a view from the far side of the moon. At the beginning of the year, we ...
The moment many of us have been waiting for is almost here: Curiosity prepares to make its first contact with ...
Phobos transit over sun. (c) NASA As once can see above, Curiosity recently caught glimpse of a partial solar eclipse ...
(c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./ USGS/Modesto Junior College In the past couple of months, all Mars-related attention has been almost unanimously shifted ...
Ok, enough of the low-res, black and white photos from Curiosity. NASA just released the first high-resolution, nearly dust free, ...
Strap on your 3-D glasses, folks. Curiosity is back on ZME Science, this time in full 3-D. We just got ...